Improvement in methods of finding waist and chest measurements of ladies  dresses



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

M. M. TURNER, OF NORTH FAIRFIELD, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN METHODS 0F FINDINGWAIST AND CHEST MEASUREMENTS 0F LADIES DRESSES.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 46,4109, dated February 14, 1865.

To all whom it may concern,.-

Be itknown that I, M. M. TURNER, of North Fairfield, Huron county, State of Ohio, have inventedv a new and Improved Chart for Cutting Dresses; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is the chart for the back of a ladys dress-body. Fig. 2 is the chart for the front of a ladys dress-body. 4

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures.

The object of this invention is to enable any person ot ordinary intelligence to accurately cut and fit ladies dress bodies of different sizes and proportions by means of a systematically constructed chart, which has indicated upon it all the various sizes and forms corresponding to the different measurements which it is necessary to make.

My improvement relates particularly to a inode of determining the width and length of waist, in conjunction with a chart which will indicate other necessary measures and coniigurations, as will be hereinafter described.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will describe its construction and operation.

Before describing my charts I will stat that they may be made of pasteboard, thin paper, or of any material which will best answer the purpose. The stift' board will be found to answer the b( st purpose, as its edges will answer as rules or guides by which to deliniate the desired pattern.

In Fig. l I have represented a chart for producing the back, a being the back, b the waist, c the length of waist, d the arm-hole, e the shoulder, and f the neck. In Fig. 2, g represents the front edge ot' the chart, b the waist, c the length of waist from armhole, d the armhole, e the shoulder, and f the neck. In order to find the desired length or size of any one or all of these points and to transfer a pattern of a desired size upon paper or upon the work to be cut out, I have arranged a number of rows of dots or holes corresponding to every point to be determined before a pattern can be drawn.` These dots or holes are arranged in rows corresponding'to each angle on the chart, and as the dots or holes are exactly one inch apart (the drawing is ning from 22 to 32 indicate the diierent sizes or circumferences of waist; and the rows of figures along the edges a g and numbering 8 7 6, are used to 'indicate the dierent lengths of the waist. Suppose a lady measures thirty-two inches around the chest close up under the arms, we then dot through the holes corresponding to number 32 on the chart, wherever this number occurs. Suppose, also, that the same lady measures twenty-four inches around the waist, we dot at 24 and 6. It' she measures twenty-four inches around the waist and has a waist seven inches long, we dot in the row 24, but in a line with iigure 7. If the waist is eight inches long and twenty-four around, we dot in the line indicated by ligure 8, but directly below the ligure 24. The pattern thus pioduced is indicated in Figs. l and 2 in red lines. The method of using the front is precisely the same as described for 'the back.

Directions: One measurement around the chest close under the arms, another around the bottom of the waist, and the length of the waist under the arm. Dot beside the tigures that indicate the chest-measurement and opposite the ligures that indicatethe width and length of the waist. Use the corresponding edge ot' themodel for a rule, and rule from dot to dot. Take the same figures on the back. v

From this description it will be seen that I am enabled to accurately determine by my chart the width and length vof the Waist, and

to draft the same upon the work to be cut. I am aware that modes of obtaining the chest-'measurements upon the principles described by me are not new, and therefore I do not claim such as my invention.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The method of linding the waist and chest measurements, substantially as described.

. M. M. TURNER. Witnesses:

A. D. GooK, S. L. 000K. 

